Article Category: News

By Lenore Skenazy

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Let’s Hear It For Sittervising!

The Scary Mommy site is always on top of the parenting trends and its latest find is “Sittervising.” The not-exactly-groundbreaking idea is for a parent to SIT while their kid...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Dare You Not to Smile!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIkHCNDd7wk&t=13s Not sure anyone can watch this video of "loose parts" free play at a school in Portland, Oregon, and not smile. Look how the kids are SO ALIVE, so...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Laundry Advice from a College President: Start Sooner

A college president and college professor find themselves all too familiar with the granular back-and-forthing on Facebook forums for parents of students at their institutions. And in an article in...
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By Let Grow

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PARENTS and KIDS: OUR INDEPENDENCE CHALLENGE CONTINUE$! YOU CAN STILL ENTER TO WIN!

Wow us some more, folks! The Let Grow Independence Challenge continues this week, two ways: Calling all parents! First, we want to hear from you PARENTS! Enter here to tell...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Save The Sleepover!

Sleeping bags and tents outside? Pillows and blankets inside? Either way, there is something thrilling and fulfilling about a sleepover. It's like a playdate on steroids! (Though...perhaps that shouldn't be...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Suggestions Needed! Dad Asks What Books and Activities Will Make His Kid Curious, Active & Independent?

Got this letter today and decided to crowd source it! Please send your suggestions to [email protected] and we will edit them down and share right here, along with our own!...
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By Lenore Skenazy

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Another Kid Lost at the Airport — With a Twist

The other day when a mom named Katy told us about losing her daughter at Newark Airport -- and then finding her -- we got a wonderful mix of advice...
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By Lenore Skenazy

Read Time: 3 minutes

It’s Out There, Kids — Go Find It

The drive to play is in all kids. So is another drive, less often discussed: The drive to explore. Without that drive, kids would be stuck simply waiting for someone...
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By Let Grow

Read Time: 20 minutes

Readers’ Advice to Mom Who (Temporarily) Lost Kid at Airport

Recently we ran the letter a mom named Katy wrote to Let Grow about how her child, 6, wandered off at Newark Airport after Katy had asked her to stay...
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By Let Grow

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Third Weekly Summer of Independence Challenge: Picnic Time!

Do your kids know that even cold liver tastes great if you eat it outside? Well, it doesn't. But most other things do. That's why for this week's sweet, simple...
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By Let Grow

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Second Weekly Let Grow Summer Challenge: Fort Day!

Not FortNITE, folks. Fort DAY. For this second week of Let Grow's Summer of Independence, we want to see what your kids can create that answers to the description of...
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By Let Grow

Read Time: 4 minutes

Help! I Lost My 6-Year-Old at the Airport for 15 Minutes and Now We Are Both Terrified

Hello Let Grow -- My name is Katy, and I stumbled upon your website yesterday, while searching for stats on how often kids lost at airports get abducted. The thing...
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